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What does "pugs" stand for?
pick-up group
either an individual or group that you don't know, you just pick-up and go with
This morning I've done my first purchase on the online store, where can I get the items I bought? Didn't pay enough attention to the little letters 😅
mailed to the character you selected, if not there you can request delivery at the top but will take a lil time (could be few mins or hr+)
^ mailed to the mail moogle in any city
i have a question when does the lvl 60 dragoon quests get unlocked?
After you finish the lv58 quest?
im not sure which ones exactly but i finished the ones in the camp but still I couldn't find new ones after em
under msq
your current job quest is displayed there
Click on it to see its location?
nowhere to be found
or check your journal in case you’ve have accepted it
is there a quick way to tell which items are 100% spiritbond or is mousing over and checking the stat individually the best i got?
Have you unlocked “geirskogul?”
If you have then next quest is a SB quest
which you need to be in the SB part of msq to do it afaik
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is there a way to check daily reset timer from within the game?
If you have the gears equipped then in the default UI, bottom right, there are some green yellow dots; yellow means 100% spiritbond
Erm that’s a lv50 skill
well yeah and im lvl 63 and i cant find the rest of the questline
when i returned it gave me a queue of 572 and then it said this
What MSQ are you at?
Volunteer dragonslayers
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Can I play my same account on both PC and playstation?
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Can I have different HUD setups for both or will I have to adjust every time I change?
Servers down for anyone? - phoenix server
Oh then you’re not in HW yet ...
Yeah you need to reach HW MSQ
Just got straight up booted
Then you can do the HW job quests
Oh yeah nevermind.... 1400 player queue 😂😂
same here
are you sure? my friend told me he reached hw and still didn't unlock them I thought we missed it or something
Hey, I'm downloading FF14 for the first time, I' wanna play a fast high dmg melee character and I thought about the Rogue/Ninja, nor sure if there is better options, but I can't start as this class?
you unlock it as you progress
early kind of
Yeah looks like they died, tried to queue up and its at 1500 player queue 😂
took me two days
So what would be the best class for me to start of with then?
the one you like the most
Okay, thanks 🙂
Its all relative 🙂
So it has no effect on my rogue class which I start with?
nope none
Nope
you can use every class in the game when you unlock em
Didn't have access to the quests? He's just wrong then
Picking a class that starts in limsa is preferable.
Yeah lol , was in the middle of a msq and now i got to wait for 1k players
Mrd does.
Okay thanks
Same here, we all got booted from the Eden raid 😂
Someone said pugilist, cause I need that at 15 to make Ninja? Is that true?
okay ill get there and check for myself thank you and Llauqs too
That is many years out of date. Just need level 30 of the class that becomes the job
monk is also quite fast iirc
I'll probably just go Maurader till 10 then rogue till 30 then Ninja
Monk seems more fun tho, but that's a worse starting point?
You'd need to hit level 15 main story quests to get rouge then
So it's a tad slower
Idk what youre using for info Noiz but yeaa...Try to stick with Gamerscape (regularly updated) or ask here etc if unsure
there really isn't a 'worse' starting point really...you will access all city-state areas by the lvl 15msq
Phoenix is down for everyone
When you rejoin you just get kicked again
huh ? Why i cant enter POTD
So pugilist need level 15 to get access to all city areas, while Maurader starts in the zone where the rogue quest is? And therfore faster? Is that correct?
need a little more context but looks like your gear is lacking for whatever it is
So Maurader can get it at 10 then?
I see, thanks
The third in that area would be arcanist
faster is subjective...you are required to do the msq regardless so up to you. If you want marauder and rogue off the bat then yea but it wont take very long to unlock the others too
And Pugilist will need level 15 to get there? There is no way to go on a long journey and run there as a pugilist at level 10?
I see, thanks
why i cant enter floor 41 to 50 POTD
god no different continent
Yes theoretically, if Limsa wasn't on an island
My biggest hurdle right now is the download
requiring boats you wouldn't be able to access
go with a class you you think you will like though since you might not like the rogue/monk when you unlock them
!faq quicklauncher
@leaden ginkgo you need to get higher aether weapons.
24 min left
consider this
how
it's 3rd party but it doesn't actually matter
go into potd floors 1-50 and get silver chests
kill bosses
upgrade your gear so you can progress
I'm just gonna start off as Maurader, see how it goes, I really have no idea what I even like.
look for footage
rather than choosing blindly
be advised mrd is a tank, so it'll be on the basic side kit-wise to start
you posted a screenshot of you hovering over the "enter the palace of the dead"
that would be a good start.
my man i cant choose
Is CTRL an important key in the game? 😛 I know this is a weird question, but I just cba to get a keyboard that has CTRL.
which floor i enter
There aren't that many abilities that I need modifiers, is there?
i should reset my prograss
You can enter from floor one or floor fifty one
The fifty one being unlocked after hitting 60
yeah but you need a certain aetherflow gear level to queue 50+
i didn't hit level 60
so it's generally accepted to run 1-50 twice as this will get you that
you have two save slots so reset one and start over on it..get a few more levels of gear and you can keep going
you need a lot of hotkey, ctrl being one of the popular choice to function as hotkey
CTRL+1 etc
yep, delete it
you can change it to ALT, but personally i using both CTRL and ALT
as it says you will start back at level one but your gear will not - focus Silver Chests and boss kills to upgrade the gear
Ye, I should probably get another keyboard. Probably won't need it yet tho
I just need a soldering device and I can probably fix my keyboard
you can play with your mouse rather than your keyboard aswell
you can configure hotkey yourself, until you find that you really cant fit in those skill any more and need ctrl then maybe you get a proper keyboard that time
its a matter of preference
People generally stick with the usual Q/E/R/F etc and variants of Ctrl+/ Alt+ and/or Shift+ on mouse or kb
and 1-5 or w.e is comfy
mmo mouse is very viable and some have luck with mouseover stuff but i prefer controller even on pc
That I can't do 😄
I got my Noppoo Choc mini from the storage...
Smells off endless hours of WoW Arena...
welp it will hurt for around a day if you play for 20hours straight
at least 2
2 1/2 to 3 yea..even those little cliche use abilities do ofc have uses.
after collecting full handsaint crafting gear how do i go from there?
Depends on what you want to do
well, where do you want to go from there? ^
Handsaint gear cannot be over/pentamelded to reach necessary caps. Aesthetes gear can.
Depends if you want to invest that much into pentamelding.
Personally I use 5 hotbars for all my jobs and my 5th hotbar use CRTL but a lot if time I click on said hotbar rather than using CTRL, it all depends on how you bind your key. I use 1-9, then T, G and F then have Shift and Alt as modifiers which is just what I need
if you want to do 4-star crafting you'll need Aesthete gear melded to an extent, or full handsaint with the finished skysteel tool
You may find yourself struggling with the UI though, which use a lot of key with CTRL as a modifier, make sure to change them to ALT and it should be alright
if you don't care about 4-star crafting, then full handsaint is all you need
Uhm... did my game broke? o.O
oh. i was scared, something messed up <.<
Chaos crashed again?
appears that way.
@stone spear if you grab the doh role from #612757637813239808 and check the pins in #doh-dol-lounge maybe that could assist you with finding your next crafter/gatherer goals if you aren't satisfied where you stand now til EW^^
Thanks for that tip, i never knew that xD
can you de-rank once you reach 25 in zadnor?
no
@quaint brook there's also an option that you can disable?enable? that allows you to target alliance members while your weapon is unsheathed. I think by default that is turned off so you have to sheath your weapon to right/left click to them
even if you die a bunch and return to base?
yea you only lose mettle
but my rank wont drop to 24 or seomthing right?
no
No
oh thank god lmao
everyone would be rank 1 once we managed to exchange proofs of mettle's
@quaint brook sorry for double ping but i found an image stating what I meant ^^
about the resistance weapons, will i be able to change the stats on the 535 one whenever i want if i have the sealants? or will i have to do the previous steps again
sealants are all you need to change the stats
at any time? i have the augmented laws order one rn and idk if i should wait until i have the 535 one to fix its stats

if you're not raiding, incorrect stats are pretty much inconsequential
It's only 400 poetics to change the stats, so it depends on how much you currently value poetics
like if you're trying to gear up other jobs with poetics
No you don't understand
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This is gonna take me like 20 minutes lol
Guys how much is the DPS difference between DNC and other DPS? Or in general, does anyone of you have a chart where the exact raid DPS is compared?
Many ppl say that Maschinist for example is rly good but others say its not im soooo confused what is good and what not. (Im just talkin‘ bout DPS classes)
Can you pay for race change later in the game?
yes, $10
So if I wanna change to ummm, asking for a friend.. Viera if my "Friend" ever decide to buy the game, that's possible?
@short novai think most DPS classes are balanced, but some do better than others in certain situations. I.e low movement fights Black Mage would clear up.
you'll need to buy shadowbringers to change to a viera, but yes.
You can use this site to look at statistics and general damage ranges for each job, both in personal damage and raid damage
!faq fflogsdps
- RaidDPS (rDPS) is: Your TotalDPS minus the damage from buffs you received plus the damage from buffs you contributed
- Personal DPS (pDPS) is: Your TotalDPS without being adjusted for buffs.
- aDPS is: Your TotalDPS minus single target buffs applied to you (devilment, dragon sight, astro cards, etc)
I just did a GATE and was wondering how many times a day/week/etc these occur? I had lots of fun'
every 20 minutes
Thx all✌️
One more question
Someone told me race didn't matter, but I see starting attributes on them
the difference in stats you see in them stay the same at max level
Those attribute differences are so miniscule
Okay I see
they're negligible
so that 6-8 points of difference at level 1 is still 6-8 points at level 80 when you have thousands of the main stats
Can't decxide on Hyur or Au RA
Au Ra feel like they have stiffer emotes for me, but the extra customization for the eyes is pretty nice.
Miqo‘te❤️
(Male Au Ra for the emote part, females are decently expressive)
And then I need to decide Raen and Xaela.. Never gonna finish with this.
u can move glamour plate slot from 1 to 15?
nope, you'll have to remake it on slot 15
hmm ok ty
Is there a way to one-button nuke a glam plate, so all glams on it disappear?
Pretty sure not. :\
why do i have to change my retainers name when transferring dc
is it cos someone's retainer already has that name in the dc?
yes

Hey guys, I’m quite new and I’ve been playing MNK which I now have at lvl 52. However I’m getting quite bored of it and wanted to try out a tank such as darkknight. My question is how much slower will solo content such as MSQ be as a tank? Since I probably won’t be doing as much dmg
People retainer randomly spawn in world map. If they are in venture
only a bit, tanks are around 60-70% of the average DPS in damage.
you're going to outlevel MSQ hard anyway
Oh alright, thanks guys
Does Gear in Dungeons have an equal drop rate or are some pieces more likely to drop than others? I've run Swallows compas almost 20 times synced and a bit more than that unsynced, and had things like chokers in the same loottable drop 5-6 times by now, but the healer boots never drop. Is there any info on drop rates in FFXIV?
unknown, it's assumed all gear have equal rates of dropping with no RNG protection.
datamines don't show drop rates of stuff since that's stored server side.
I'd say in most cases it isn't really slower, outside of some synced content, since DDs often need to get into rotation do really do good damage, and with tanks damage comes faster
I've been ko'd in the middle of a fate and I'm now in the middle of nowhere I'm relatively new to the game so I don't know what to do at this point
click the notification in the bottom right of the screen and return to your home aetheryte
If yourn in overworld, just return to the aetherite with the notification bottom right
Aii, I picked a world with queue in lol
Thought they would automatically pick less populater worlds for you
Is there a way I can change my camera sensitivity for controller? I'm never able to look around fast enough for incoming attacks
almost every world will have a queue in
system config > controller settings
Wireless controller settings?
Anyone know how to turn off recurring sub on mogstation? I don't even get an option to select/deselect a recurring option
cancel subscription, NOT service account
Is it a "recurring" sub because I'm still on the free sub and it's gonna charge me for first month once this ends and then it'll go to normal or?
Or subscribe with Crysta, so it can't automaticly resubsribe 😄
if you choose a standard subscription it's recurring by default.
not as a standard subscription
if you don't want it to be recurring, set the preferred payment option to be Crysta, which only makes it take payment if you have crysta for it to use
or downgrade to entry subscription unless you see yourself wanting multiple characters in one world
Ok I gotcha
Ty
Even with card info it'll still ask me before I purchase other things correct?
I would assume
yes
in order to do the relic reborn quest on free trial do I have to level up all the jobs myself?
You'll need to level up the needed crafting classes, yes.
the only "gate" is the levequest allowances, which can be used as a repeatable mini-quest for earning experience.
what's edgier, DRK or DRG ?
of which you get 3 allowances every 12 hours.
or the eventual REAPER
ok, guess I'll start that.. how can I see which other crafting classes I need for this other than GSM?
Tie between DRK and Reaper until we see more about reaperr
crafting classes are pretty intertwined with each other, eventually to where a decent number of crafts need multiple materials from other crafters
the general advice is to level up basically all of them together, with culinarian being an exception since it only makes food and fishing bait.
Fair warning, doing Relic Reborn all the way through while on the free trial is a hellish undertaking
(Also note that relic weapons outside of the current expansion are effectively just for looks, as you can buy weapons that are just as good as their final version for vastly less effort)
whats a good class to learn the game (just started the free trial)
how?
!faq poetics
yep
thanks
depends on what you want to do
a healer like conjurer is pretty safe, since you can keep yourself alive much easier and have an overall simple tool kit.
i have been trying to find a download link for ff14 for the past 15 minutes
someone please help
in the very beginning when you're killing mobs on the open world you can accidentally run into higher level mobs and have to run away
as a healer you can survive a couple of hits and heal up enough to not die
free trial or full game?
trial
!faq freetrial
thank you so much
I feel like that's not worth choosing a class over tho
but idk
kind of a fringe situation
any class is fine to start with
im tryna be a dps of some sort, i dont mind dying to over leveled monsters
I'd recommend archer/bard
the more complex ones are pug/monk and rogue/ninja
so you might want to avoid those
the rest are generally pretty easy I think
do you like being all up close in the action? or do you like to be hitting from a range
everything's easy at early levels
that's true
or do you like being a mage with powerful magic
just don't buy a skip and you'll understand any job's kit
I do think monk and ninja get pretty complex compared to the others
if you ask me I think the easiest for a new player is probably archer
since you can hit from range and kite
bet, thanks yall
and no channeling since you're not a caster
yes, but rescue has a long cooldown time and isn't regularly used
The only time I ever see it used from my POV is on Syrcus Tower when people dont get on the platforms on final boss
Just wondering which job used it
yeah, people often use it in *labyrinth of the ancients on the ancient flare mechanic
it's helpful in those cases, but rescue timing can be very finicky
i used it in that snow dungeon to pull people behind the pillar at fenrir
why are there so many afk people outside the bozja entry npc? its packed
people AFK in Bozja/Zadnor and get kicked out by the instance auto-kick timer
@quartz bear btw i would argue for trying out arcanist yoru a dps that has a pet and can heal themselves and you get a free healer specc that levels with your dps spec at 30
if you afk for more than 10 minutes inside bozja, the instance removes you and kicks you out to gangos
some people also stand in gangos to advertise their party finder for extreme/savage content since that's where a lot of endgame players are
does alt class leveling take time? queuing as DPS takes a long time, I'm wondering if I should level a tank job for faster queues
so just hit lvl 80 and finished shadowbringers MSQ but now i'm locked out of 80's dungeons, where should I go to increase my iLvl to 460?
I have the 430 gear already, stuck at 421 ilvl right now
you're missing more than just the ilvl
that list of ??? are lvl 80 dungeons that you need to complete
you’re missing the completion of 5 level 80 dungeons.
well how do I unlock them ?
blue quest markers
3 are through msq, 2 are side content

One starts in the crystarium, the other in the slums of eulmore
might be the reason?
difficulty wise, how hard is the stage 26-31 of the masked carnival?
yes
damn
and yeah. definitely oughta do all of those
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thanks, will keep doing Amaurot to get some more iLvl and doing those quests markers in the meantime
not too bad, but i did use guides for everything lol
As for raising your ilvl, what’s your current ilvl @plain heath? should be able to unlock the eden raids and gear up a bit from that, or you can get revelation tomestones from roulettes or buy ilvl 510 gear off the mb
@heavy wadi421
did you get your artifact gear? that should get you ilvl 430 weapons and armor
looks like I just unlocked a 80 dungeon, The Grand Cosmos but.. 430 ilvl required 😄
yes I did
what is pushing me back is the other stuff I didnt get
eden raids are an easy way to get free higher ilvl gear
how do I unlock them ?
!quest In the Middle of Nowhere
thanks a lot rin for your help. I just hope that yoshi-p or square enix does not personally see what I am doing
One of the Crystarium guards is particularly relieved to have found you.
anxious Crystarium guard
The Crystarium (X: 9.78 Y: 12.37)
Ryne
The Empty (X: 6.11 Y: 5.76)
Shadowbringers
Deploy the Core
the questline starts here
thanks will check it out
the first series of raids has minimum ilvl 425
so you might need to spend gil on a piece of exarchic gear to bring up your average ilvl
you can probably just buy a ring/wrist/necklace off the mb yeah
that should be enough to bring it up
yeah thats what i will do probably
chaos or light
I mean isn't there a difference in population and raiding
Chaos has Moogle which is unofficial French server. Light has Shiva which is unofficial German
I speak neither 
why cant my retainer use my Malestorm coat?
Good thing there are a bunch of other servers
I assume that since retainers can't join grand companies they can't wear grand company gear since you can only wear the gear of the grand company you are part of. Otherwise level requirement?
@woven mural transfereing servers?
Well yes and no Alex
no, new character
you just have to wait a few hours or something to join
!faq serverlock
Standard, Preferred, and New Servers will dynamically open and close themselves from newly created characters depending on how many players are online. To ensure you're able to make a new character on your server try waiting or doing so at a less active time of day.
Congested Servers will not unlock for new players or transfers until Square Enix removes the Congested Status.
ahh
Basically that is saying unavailable just due to too many people logged in at once
ok gotcha ty
You can just keep trying and you'd get in
gotcha ty
can someone send me the ruby ex macro
something that doesn't want me to smash my controller typing
there's not much positionals when it comes to ruby iirc
jp probably uses different macros
there is
only position would be a circle
helioclaw
meteor
that cut and run
ranged back. melee forward
that'll work
https://discord.gg/YzDTFDZH but here you go
you need to select "duty" first
^
only then will it be selectable
Hey, my level is 53 dragoon job and still doing arr msq. I am about to capped poetics. Is it advisable to use the poetics on augmented armor ironworks ?
can you buy it already? if so, yeah.
where do we claim these ? Didnt we use to take them from Jonathas?
Click the button
click the icon
oh lol
which job would people recommend for a 1st toon? any people would avoid for a 1st time run?
You get it from that menu now
Any job.
They all start slow and slowly introduce stuff
any job is viable, it all depends on the player skill on how to play that job.
am i able to take a warrior and play as a dps?
No
no, warrior is a tank not a dps.
dang
ahhh, yea i heard they all kinda start off basic and have a decent toolkit in later lvls, does the starting city make a difference? i know i can go to the others late ron, but i prefer the astetic of the forest start based on the discri[ption
Tanking is just DPSing with extra steps though really.
Just slightly different starting story that converges into the same story at 15
Starting city doesn’t matter past level 15
Starting city will affect your first 20 main story quests or so
tanks: dps with mitigs and no positionals
oh one last question, are anmy jobs not mobile? like do all class's have run while casting or are some more static caster types?
Black mage is the turret caster
healers and mages have to stand still to cast most of their spells
But it has mobility options for when movement is required
no one else does, except one Samurai attack and one Ninja thing
All casters have mobility when required with various instant casts
ahh, good to know, think il avoid the turrent style 1st time round 🙂
Level 10, woop. I can get rogue class now?
If yoy didn't start In limsa you need to do more story until you travel there
Is it worth maxing level on gladiator or swapping to a different job better?
I did start there
I found it
depends. do you enjoy gladiator?
!faq armourybonus
'How do I get the bonus experience from the Armoury?'
As long as you're playing a Disciple of War or a Disciple of Magic class that's a lower level than your highest level class then you're able to benefit from the bonus experience. You do not need to have a class at level 80 for the bonus to be active.
'How much is the bonus experience?'
You get +100% experience from levels 1 to 69, which then reduces to +50% for level 70 to 79. The difference in level between your current class and highest class does not change the amount of experience you get.
Gladiator is by far the most boring tank to level, imho.. but it gets so better as it does.
and by boring i mean slowest pace and also their Rage of Halone combo becomes absolutely useless after Goring Blade unlocks.
Because its good at it?
All tanks are good at tanking, it's just slower paced compared to others because we lack 'burst' phases until way later so its a lot of repetitiveness early on for Glad.
I do main PLD though with that being said, SHB made them so much nicer to play.
I might just need to look up a guide on rotations too. Not 100% on it yet.
All tanks have pretty boring rotations tbh
I can help but what level even are you? your rotations wont fill out til like 70+ usually
Only 25 atm lmao
when is the daily reset for the roulettes?
yeah, others get burst phases earlier though so its kinda personal taste..the slower pace is nice though for sure. For job quest/story, DRK has objectively the best and PLD kinda just sticks around the GLD stuff
ah yeah so lemme check for ye
I was thinking of going drk because it looks cool lol
to play paladin do i need to level gld?
But gotta hit 50 first right?
!daily
yes
ahh thanks vinyl
GLD turns into PLD, DRK is DRK, Marauder is Warrior, GNB is GNB
I'll remember that command
no you need to unlock Ishgard/HW MSQ
so...yes but no lol
because by that time if you dont story skip, you will be beyond 50 at that point.
Gotcha
you could swap to gnb at 50 though i think without all that..50 or 60 i forget heh but same for any expansion job SB+
60
gnb is what im currently thinking of maining
HW is the only one requiring you reach that expac to become drk/ast/mch
GNB is the busiest tank with all the double weaving - not my style for tank play but definitely still viable and good.
Hello everyone, I was playing FF14 always on the PC and got now the PS4 version too. But the PS4 version has an other Square Enix-ID connected to the PSN Account than the one I use for PC. Is there any way to reset this?
so at 25 you dont have much, as expected. your rotation really is just "spam the glowy shit - at level 26 you get Rage of Halone which is a combo-ender for RIot Blade
hey guys just a quick question i have ff 14 on pc and ps5 but i dont know where to play it on any recomendations , fyi on ps5 its in 4k on pc its 1080 p
pc is my opinion
Either is fine
So Fast blade>riot>rage of halone is your only 'spammable combo' at 26. at 54 you can completely and utterly replace Rage of Halone with Goring Blade because its way more potency. This is true until you unlock Royal Authority at 60.
It's preference
and as for additional tank tips - Use your defensive cds on trash packs. never save for bosses in dungeons. and please by all accounts read and use Arm's Length and Reprisal as defensives
at 22 for reprisal and 32 for arms length in the Role tab
preference but you can still play with controller on pc which is what I do. PC has more options (against TOS but widely recognized to be necessary) such as ACT etc.
At end game, how often is reprisal and arms length used by GNB?
end game you mean savage raids or?
I just started learning gnb and looking through the skills. Theres a lot more mitigation tools
Savage yea
You could always make a new PSN. otherwise I know you can change SE ID to a new PSN account so theoretically could be done but gotta go through SE
reprisal is 10% flat dmg reduction so A LOT
most bosses will ignore slow effect on arms length HOWEVER you will still use it for knockback immunity
Alright so still usage as per normal got it
Uptime = more dmg = less damage the enemy does overall because it dies faster.
Basically in savage groups (statics) you and your co-tank will coordinate where to spend your reprisals
Thanks! I am gonna contact the support then! 🙂
Usually used for really big hurtful raidwides
because of course buffs/debuffs are multiplicative in ffxiv so addle+reprisal+heart/veil/shake etc
(also most savage mechanics, and by most i mean a good 90%+ are magical damage so Reprisal works for both whereas Feint only works on physical and Addle on magical atks)
Looking forward to start using GNB. I was intimidated by the vast toolkit given straight away, but after using my own (limited) experience and arranging the skills to what I feel I'm comfortable with. It doesn't feel so scary
You're fine! it starts at 60 so has a LOT more heh but basically
The extra single target combo does potentially mess up my usual tank hot bars
all tank cds and such can be placed in very similar spots as they are all very similar in nature.
I took a look at the full tool kit today
so keep that in mind if you want to swap tanks around
Its really a tank with dps rotation
Yes that's what I do haha
I had to make some shifts to have it make sense for gnb
gunbreaker is the busiest tank with way more double weaving than the others, their invuln is kinda meh but overall LD is "worse" without a whm
But overall no biggie
Living dead seems like he most challenging to outline off without coordination. But time wise it seems like it gives the most invul with living+walking dead
how do i import waymarks?
also join the balance discord for rotation tips etc. they are an optimization discord (ykno, because enrage timers exist and kinda force people to learn their jobs to advance)
you can import with the custom launcher but you need someone to share it with you or find one
LD is by far the most resource dependant invulnerability and thus marked as "the worst tank invuln" BUT that being said, with a WHM that's negated because bene
it isnt bad with a group that knows how to react properly. all tanks are great tanks, DRK is always great because again, most savage stuff is heavily magic damage
I might have gotten the misconception. But superbolide doesn't kill you if you're not healed to full correct?
it does not
Thats great to know
Every job I've played so far has been really fun and viable in every dungeon I've ran (still early stormblood)
Only havent tried GNB and DNC
!action living dead
Grants the effect of Living Dead. When HP is reduced to 0 while under the effect of Living Dead, instead of becoming KO'd, your status will change to Walking Dead.
Living Dead Duration: 10s
While under the effect of Walking Dead, most attacks will not lower your HP below 1. If, before the Walking Dead timer runs out, HP is 100% restored, the effect will fade. If 100% is not restored, you will be KO'd.
Walking Dead Duration: 10s
Warrior is often used a LOT because their invuln is kinda busted in that it has such a short cooldown too
So some/most fights that require a tank swap can completely ignore the tank swap due to that
The down side to WAR is its gearing tho
I seee
Kinda yeah. Warr takes different melds than the other tanks because of its Inner Release
but there are omnitanking sets
no it was actually buffed a LOT with shb
it used to chain you and the enemy to a spot..now it doesnt and bosses would be immune
!action holmgang
so warr couldnt move til holmgang went away in SB and such..now they can move with it active so its nice
Itz a great buff for sure
ye, used to chain you+them and only last 6s but shb buffed it nicely.
240s cooldown compared to the others. PLD is 7minutes cd.
I cant to see what EW brings to all.the jobs. AST especially
I say this but I havent experienced any of the 80 toolkit
I'll get there 🤣
but by far and large the best 'invuln' because it's an actual invuln and thus allows you to not get debuffs because you have to tank damage to have debuff applied. heh
Agreed
yee that's discussion stuff though but i can help with any tank woes/questions ^^
a tip for when you do, especially the instant cast trait+holy circle in dungeons
start off your pulls with your magic window/spamming that. all of your other aoe stuff gives you MP back and well ofcourse the magic dps is way more than the spinning physical aoes
Got it
and uh if you have a WHM, please wait for them to spam Holy at least 4-5 times as it stuns enemies so
if you use cds during that time, youre wasting them. especially prevalent on DRK using TBN
(and arms length wont last long enough for the diminishing returns on the stun so 100% wasted)
I'm aware of that. But usually when queuing with pubs. I'd still use my cds the first few pulls and see how the whm plays
but that slow is chefs kiss on biiiig pulls
Take a lv80 friend to Khlosuia beach, keep out of the party and have them kill lv70 mobs for you
What do you mean by this?
yeah fair assumption! i try to ask my healer if theyre good with big pulls at the start..or just try one and see how it goes
!action arm's length
Ah I should start doing that
Arms length is an attack slow
^
oh sorry
Oops haha
just a metaphor i guess, it's really good is all
What other xp buffs exist besides food buff (+3%), armory bonus (+100%/+50%), Heat Of Battle 3 (+10%), and earing buffs like Aetheryte Earing (+30%)/the new earing?
Don't battle manuals exist as well?
Rested XP
there's a Brand New Ring for up to level 30 from hall of the novice
Road to 70 preferred server buff and various other equipment buffs like friendship circlet
Oh yeah ring
I see. I love the slow tbh
heat of battle 3 is 15% btw not 10%
Mm I'm level 70+ though
heat of battle 2 is 10%
Didn't know that, ty
Armoury bonus
Didn't really specify
surprisingly not a lot of people know about arms length.. also please know and understand what Provoke+shirk do, if you dont i can help heh but it wont really be relevant til youre in endgame i suppose
For anything lower level that your highest level job
They said that
uhhhhh there is the mogstation Angel set i guess that gives exp bonus but
Well I guess in that case only battle manuals could improve xp for me, those exist.. Right?

i dont think or know that that's worth it
I should be pretty ok down with all these tanking basics. I'm someone who likes to research and know what I can do. Weskalber was and is still a very good resource for job learning for me
All mogstation xp bonuses cap at level 30 I think
I only have issue down to specific fights. Espexially the EX and savage stuff
Im willing to help pending which fight etc, have you joined the balance discord as well? they are an optimization discord and have all the rotations, bis, etc resources.
there is a LOT of outdated info out there (10+yr old game) so ykno doesnt hurt to verify
Oh one thing about tank swapping. @polar hound. Am I correct that these are the steps. Assuming MT wants to pass enmity to OT
- MT provoke boss > shirk OT
- OT provoke
Yep im in the balance!
But its a lot of lvl.80 stuff so I'm waiting to get there firdt
damn sorry then, i think you hit all the bonuses outside of the ones mentioned. Well, outside of job skips lol
no
that's not how shirk work
provoke and then shirk always
so OT would provoke, then MT would shirk to them
Ah ok so the MT provoke is unnecessary
only the tank who needs aggro for the swap would provoke
I've read somewhere that shirk passes a %. I rmb seeing someone else saying MT provoke first to shirk maximum enmity
so if you are MT and get tankbustered/vuln, OT would voke and you would shirk to them
I guess that was bad advice
That was for circle shirking
When aggro management actually existed
Ohhh
cause i had to fight whm for aggro on EVERYTHING
overhealing aggro was stupid insane.
Ok so now its very straight forward, one provokes one shirks
yep
Got it
voke even now gives you a slight aggro lead where it didnt before but shirk is still necessary unless your rotation is perfect.
Understood
in the case that shirk is on cd or w.e.. can just turn off tank stance and let them get the lead
Got it.
SHB buffed tank stance a lot. we used to have to stance dance (tank stance reduced our dps by 10-20%) heh
Generally speaking, as the OT, when should I turn on my stance? Is it the tank swap moment or should I turn it on earlier
Assuming no adds
after the opener is safe
Got it
just incase the mt dies and so dps/heal dont get whacked
👍 👍 👍
also some fights do require both tanks to be in #1 and #2 aggro spots for split tank busters
but same thing really...just wait for the opener to be over and should be good to go.
Noted!
Thanks so much guys
@polar hound do you mind if I add you as a friend on discord? So I rmb you're the tank guru 😅
feel free to ping if you have any other questions as you go if you cant find answers/something seems off. or just ask here cause lotsa knowledgable ppl
sure lol
For sure.
how come I cant open this on redmage?
im not really a tank guru but have mained pld since HW and have severe co-tank ptsd lmao but free to help
@raven silo I believe rdm doesn't have a normal weapon lower than lvl 50
Or that coffer just doesn't have rdm weapons
The mythrite rapier you get at the start is already much better than what you can get (assuming you can) from this coffer anyways
those are your choices from that box
When can I use tomes for equipment in ShB? And where? Do I have to beat the expansion first? I’m still using level 400 stuff and currently on level 72 MSQ
thanks 🙂
Eulmore once you finish shb ye
What if dungeons require higher than 400 before that?
are you at that point?
Nah
MSQ should provide you with enough ilvl with dungeon gear mixed in
MSQ gives you gear
I see
as long as you arent splitting msq between multiple jobs
Just like every expansion
at level 79 msq(technically 80 cause heh role quests are required) you get a set of gear too
Which tomes do I need for dps class ? same as before?
Luckily for me, MNK and SAM uses the same gear type 🤣 using MNK for early SB, and SAM for later SB. Weeb reasons
If your gear in Trusts is like, 2-3 levels behind, does it make a big difference in time spent in-dungeon?
tomes change with major patches, i believe allegory are the current 80 tome stuff
Where can I get allegory tomes
Level 80 content
not big no, slight sure..they really kinda suck and dont aoe so you're looking at 30+mins per regardless
Well, still better than DPS queues
that is very true
Also soloing instances with ai seems much harder than a real group
just make a healer/tank friendo 😉
If you die you don’t get revived
It's not necessarily harder, just..slower because they play like bad AI lol
does CLL come every 30 mins or its random?
castrum is random to my knowledge
There are a few bozja+ discords out there that do callouts and such for those but yea..could check #resources
It's 1 hour Base Cooldown
Which is reduced by Ces being completed
More ces done, faster it spawns
there aren't many resources for JP cause they tend to stick to their own nvm
It can be like 20mim cd if alot of ces get done
is there anything like a crafting storage in the game?
cause i've been doing levelling all the tradeskills, and i'm starting to run out of inventory space
Chocobo saddlebag, retainers
Nope, just those two extra spaces
i think i still need to unlock those too
You can get retainers after like level 17 msq
!faq retainer
What is a retainer?
A retainer is a private NPC that will act as a personal bank for the player, holding up to 175 different items, that can be summoned to any of the Summoning Bells around the world. Retainers also act as your means to sell on the Market Board.
How to unlock a retainer
First, you must complete the quest The Scions of the Seventh Dawn then go to speak to any of the Retainer Vocates located in the market district of any of the major cities.
What are Retainer Ventures?
Ventures are the means to send out your retainers on missions to bring back items for you and can be unlocked by completing the quest 'An Ill-conceived Venture' (Ul’Dahn), (Gridania), (Limsa Lominsa)
And chocobo saddle bagpretty early as well
some use FC chests and such for extra storage but yeaaa...they charge +2$ for additional retainers beyond the first 2 which are free
if you have a trusted friend you can mail them a buncha stuff back and forth too but ppl usually do that with maps cause limitations
do you need to move stuff back and forth between your inventory and retainers/chocobo saddlebags to be able to craft with them?
Yes, has to be inventory
please be made aware of the /isearch function to assist
/isearch titanium and then rightclick>search to tell you where it is exactly etc
Hello.
I have a question regarding the seeds that can be gathered via botany.
Can they be bought off the marketboard? How expensive are they on average?
((Im a free trial player, running out of room in my inventory. Been gathering every seed I found so far))
What’s max materia rank I can use for level 70? My 400 ilevel BLU
all depends on your servers economy and which you have..generally speaking things on free trial arent hard to obtain so prolly not much. as long as an item doesnt state "market prohibited" you can try.
should be VI/6 for blue
@polar hound Is there any way to look at a server's marketboard outside of the game?
Im on Light>Zodiark
ehh not reliably but there is the '!market' command you can use in #kupo-bot-spam
Materia grade 6
Thx
@polar hound Thank you!
"!market light nameofseed"
keep in mind that is only updated when people using the custom launcher search for it so it might not be accurate to date.
Okay
Just to confirm, there is no way to free trial players to own housing or an apartment, wether now or in the foreseeable future, right?
Do you have retainers and such unlocked? that could help alleviate your inventory - also you can prolly just toss the seeds if im bein real but ye
ope mb
Np
how does one even dodge helioclaw
I mean if you wanna share an inventory pic i can prolly help you toss stuff away lol but otherwise general rule of thumb is just farm a buncha extra job quest items and then sell them
you have to move around with it but you can start here
I mean, the spot you're standing in the photo is completely safe lol
@polar hound im away from pc right now. Brb
been awhile since i ran ruby, everyone panicked and followed it around but yea its safe op
Yeah, where he is in the photo, slightly to the left of an intersection of two circles is a completely safe spot
works better if you bait the magitek lines to one side first but isnt terribly hard mech
Typically my groups don't have issues with helioclaw but they all die to his dash attacks
what would be a good setup for DPS to farm Bojza Fate and Critical event in general?
Stuff that increases your damage
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need to progress bojza story by clearing Dalriada. i read the wiki conditions for its spawn. how do i quickly set myself up for it? join a busy instance and pray for the 90min respawn? keep leaving and joining until i enter a fresh instance for the 60min timer?
Join an instance and ask when/if it has spawned yet
@polar hound Back. Here is my inventory. Some points to note:
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The Saddle Bag is my dedicated 'Pantry' for culinarian stuff. (Being free trial means I have to run over all of Eorzea 6+ times just to gather ingredients for 1 dish. The ores are just temporarily there while I level the other crafting classes.)
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The first tab is temp hold + Bank via allagan pieces. (Again, holding crafting stuff I might need later) (Bank because we have a 300k gil limit).
at what level to start doing potd for leveling?
only way i see
And this reason is why we tell players to wait for ishgard restoration for leveling crafters
???
all of this can be destroyed/tossed aside from the cordials and gysahl greens
When dungeons are 15+ mins per que
I'll be real with you, you can ignore CUL and FSH until later on also.
I have enough thingies for 5.55 final ast relic, but no other jobs at the same step, worth to turn in or keep it to farm more for once I reach it on other jobs/weapons?
they dont compliment other crafters nearly as much as the others
nvm i lucked into a instance with Dalriada! YAY!
As in the boosts arent good enough?
what boosts
Unlocked after 3.3 msq, crafting area to easily powerlevel in
Ooh, I see.
those are just various levels of potions that really have no effect on you and at 80 you'll get much better
Normal quality is usually shit to begin with so any NQ stuff can usually be tossed
I can only go up to 60 for now. Can I even access it?
Keep it to farm more of the itens unless you have another job ready to take it up again
Yes
also all of your low level materias can be tossed
infact, nearly everything in this tab can be tossed.
It’s in HW so free trail accounts can use it
you dont need any of that, and if you did, you dont have nearly enough of any of it.
glam prisms can be saved tho
and moogle tomes ofc
How many materia do you need for the lvl50 crafting class quests then?
lvl3 ones, I mean
my biggest advice would be to drop and ignore CUL for now. and yes once you reach 20+ on crafter you can go to Ishard Restoration/Firmament to powerlevel them
ye, guess thats wisest! Thank you. Most of my non-main jobs are left behind at the HW fate grind step xD ;_;
you have a LOT of random cul shit and honestly it doesnt give you much to help other crafters so.
honest to gods... i never know what I can sell or keep
there are a lot of items in this game, thats understandable.
but generally speaking until you're 60/70+ most items hold little to no value if you can just...gather them
I forget if we have a "Shop Selling Price:" faq entry
higher levels can gather way more of those items and all HQ so lol
but if "Shop Selling Price:" appears in the tooltip for an item, there is a vendor that sells it
Via skills?
yep
so there is no point whatsoever in hanging onto those
higher level crafters can press 1 button and HQ lower level items also
but yeah drop CUL for now, toss those cpl pages of stuff i mentioned and keep stockin up on allagan pieces to hoard gil
i gotta spend a day selling these usless items through the Valet
do your GC daily turnins and once 20+ look into the firmament
wdym Tehnam?
you can go to your retainer and have them sell stuff from your inventory at merchant price
Ooooh, I see. And just to confirm, those skills are below lvl60, right?
slaves w.e lol. you mean on the market board i assume?
yeah
the retainers can just sell them for a base price if it's better than market price
there are different ranks of those skills in varying strengths but i believe SB+ is where you'll get the ones i mentioned. I was moreso just proving a point that mostly anything you get pre-60 is gonna be pretty little in value.
i've been slowly doing that
yeah they can act like a merchant
i wouldn't hoard anything that isnt HQ already though.
especially CUL stuff cause as you see....that's like 50% of your issue lol
@polar hound Okay. Thank you so much!
hello, can i farm company seals infinitely using the roulettes? (if i meet the adventurer in need requirements)
np, if you need more info about the firmament i would highly advise grabbing the DoH role in #612757637813239808 and check the pins in #doh-dol-lounge ..Wynne has some nice stuff pinned there
the adventurer in need bonus does maintain but the daily bonus will not. also the adventurer in need must not change before you finish the duty or yeah you dont get it heh. Guildhests and leveling your GC rank to turnin dungeon items for seals is much more preferred.
does mch just not use their 1-2-3 combo in their rotation? cuz any rotation I find just doesn't use them, but my guildmates say that you do use them so I must be looking at the wrong thing
!faq balance
highly suggest joining the balance and checking the MCH resources there, that sounds ludicrous that you dont use your combo ever.
well, cant click the link
thanks
the thing is that i only have the lvl 10 guildhest eventhough i am lvl 40
what do you mean by turning dungeon items for seals?
simple answer to that is yes you use 123 to get mroe gauge
you can't constantly be in hyper charge/ using drill/air anchor
What else would you even be doing on machinist.... It's basically unsaid to do your combo
Wasn't sure if lower crit would be better over determ
More strength is significant more damage
Don't overvalued substats
You don't care for substats until you're max ilvl
Until you get to endgame, higher ilvl is pretty much gonna be your best
Especially a 30 ilvl difference
Though at 60 you'll want to get the augmented shire set, once you finish 3.0
I must be blind but I only see opener rotations
Outside of openers you literally just spam your combos and press shit on Cooldown
And dont overcap gauges
Your openers align stuff so that you can just use it on Cooldown
oh right, no idea why I didn't think of that
thought it would have a strict rotation like monk too
past the opener
In order to turn gear into the grand company, yoy need to rank up by buying promotions via seals at the Grand company Hq
Even for Monk, outside the opener is just general upkeep
Keep your buffs up, keep dot up
Use shit on Cooldown
Alternate dragon kick and bootshine
(sorry i got muted cause the mch guide has a homosexual slur in the link)
but it's listed in the balance
use / on the numpad
Openers in general are designed for alignment to just use shit on Cooldown and just have general upkeep until stuff Lines back up for the burst again
^^^ Buff windows in xiv are multiplicative so keeping things lined up with those (every 1-2mins) is a huge gain.
oh ok, thanks
I think you need 2nd sargeant to turnin gear for seals
should be easy then, I figured out the monk rotation before I even looked it up cuz it was obvious
green quality+ gear fwiw
You can think of rotations are maintainance...keep the buffs you set up, don't overcap gauges, use things as you get it for free damage and all
The only thing about mch is don't hypercharge when Drill/ hotshot(air anchor) is 8s or lower, otherwise you'll delay their uses
That's the only real think to keep in mind
What's the best way to gain MGP?
!faq mgpguide
ahh yeah so if you wanna wait til then, mgp gain will be doubled but doesnt hurt to do ^ that stuff til then anyway
there's also an FC buff for MGP gain but usually fcs ignore it.. we use it per request during the event
where in the golden saucer can i attent the chocobo events?
also your Wondrous Tails should offer some variant of MGP at some ranks. and Moogle tomes can buy you some mgp also.
Do you have to be Lv 61 to enter HOH?
You can also get a similar thing from squadron missions if your GC rank’s high enough
oh true squadrons exist
chocobo square is where racing takes place, different floor iirc theres an elevator/aetheryte there
brb
the lift person should be here -ish
did the blackest night used to be based off of the dark knigths HP
It still is
thanks I found it!
That's one reason why it's so strong
can anyone tell me whats going on?
I've had this issue before, I had to restart my PC to fix it iirc
I'm only level 51 in my MSQs right now (DRG). I want to level an AST, should I Just spam leveling roulette / dungeons?
Daily roulettes then highest level dungeon, ignoring poetic dungeons
cool, I guess i'll try not to die of bored with the grind haha
any tips for healing besides clicking on party member's names on the left bar to easily select and heal them?
Just get comfortable binds where you can just snap your fingers to use a skill without thinking
cool thanks, i've put all the heals in comfortable places
Is WAR supposed to hit a weird Beast Gauge number (like 60/90) around your subsequent ST dmg buff refresh?
@spiral inletIn case you're still wondering, the shield did used to scale solely off of the drk's hp but at 10% instead of the original 20%. It was changed to target's hp with shb
Thanks
what mask is this?
Normally u wanna stay at least to 70 so you can fell cleave and have left over for upheaval if it's coming off CD, that's the general rule
Should've mentioned at lvl 60
Ahh
yes those numbers are perfectly fine for gauge @foggy viper
is the ping sending or received
near the server name
No that’s basically useless info
oof
There’s no ingame ping display
can i calculate on ps4 somehow
!faq checkping
- Open CMD (Windows key + R, Type CMD and hit enter)
- Type: ping -n 20 [Datacenter ip address] without the brackets
- Press enter
PD: To check your Datacenter IP adress go to https://arrstatus.com/
Is there a list of the endgame things that require or would be better bought with tomestones of poetics?
Use a computer on the same local network
ohh
no
thanks :)
!faq poetics
ty
if you go into a trial unsynched with other BLUs, do you all acquire the spell at the same time like in synched if you happen to get it?
yep
Yes but unsynced it's rng so be prepared to grind
swansgrace hood
If 1 blue learns it, all blues do
is there anyone who is having an unresponsive black screen error who locks the whole desktop upon direct exit?
i made some research and found out that some players claim that it happens due to logitec g hub but it happens randomly on my side even with logitech g hub closed
i think its some lost allagan piece or a HW pvp set?
what's best way for healers to switch targets when switching between healing and dps?
Anyone knows how long usualy does it take for support to answer?
Default keybinds are Target Members in Party List -> F2 - F8.
most people just click on the party list then tab back to the enemy afaik
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I know mch is top tier for potd, but what about tank and healer?
check the solo rankings and see which classes people have cleared with https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ranking/deepdungeon/?solo_party=solo
I found AST to be good in a group setting, and GNB/DRK decent as well
Every job has cleared potd now afaik
I dont want solo, in a party
you cant revive on boss stage floor 50 potd ?
If its a party going in as a standard light party is fine
my group did two MCH and an AST since they had lower aether level
how im a suppost to win the boss we always get insta kill at half of her hp
what is the solution !
Ugh party rankings only show the leader
Yes just not on the same step
what are you dying to, what's the name of the cast/mechanic
so long as they're on different steps yes
thx!
idk it just happend
I i was wondering whats a good combo for miner? blacksmith or goldsmith

